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Kerry James Marshall, ARTslant, December 12, 2013

ARTslant , “Filling in a Blank in the Image Bank” by Edo Dijksterhuis “Painting and Other Stuff ... Kerry James Marshall” MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium October 4, 2013 - February 2, 2014 “In the eyes of European curators and collectors, Kerry James Marshall is a quintessentially African-American artist, dealing with the idiosyncrasies of a place far removed from the Old World. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but this can be the only explanation for the complete absence of Marshall’s work in European museum collections. Only two private collectors, one in London and one in Amsterdam, have actually bought paintings by the artist who in the United States is considered one of the greats of his generation and whose work fetches premium prices at auction. The first time a mainstream European audience got to see Marshall’s large-scale canvases was at Documenta X (1997). Ten years later the artist returned to Kassel and astounded Documenta visitors with intimate and intense black portraits, which connected really well with the seventeenth century fare that regularly adorns the walls of Wilhelmshöhe Castle. But ever since, those interested in Marshall’s work would have to buy a plane ticket to Chicago or New York to see it. Until now. On the eve of the artist’s sixtieth birthday M HKA in Antwerp presents a first full-scale overview, which subsequently travels to Copenhagen, Barcelona and Madrid.” To read more: http://www.artslant.com/brx/articles/show/37634?utm_source=12032013&utm_...